Eunethydis: a statement of the ethical principles governing the relationship between the European group for ADHD guidelines, and its members, with commercial for-profit organisations

Joseph A. Sergeant (1) , Tobias Banaschewski (2) , Jan Buitelar (3) , David Coghill (4) , Marina Danckaerts (5) , Manfred Döpfner (6) , A. Rothenberger (7) , Paramala Santosh (8) , E. J. S. Sonuga-Barke (9, 10) , Hans-Christoph Steinhausen (11) , Eric Taylor (12) , A. Zuddas (13)

1 Clinical Neuropsychology, Vrije Universiteit
2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy [Mannheim]
3 Donders Centrum
4 Centre for Neuroscience
5 Kliniekhoofd Kinder‐ en Jeugdpsychiatrie, Clusterverantwoordelijke
6 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence
7 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
8 Centre for Interventional Paediatric Psychopharmacology
9 School of Psychology
10 Department of Experimental Clinical & Health Psychology
11 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
12 King's College London Institute of Psychiatry
13 Child Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neuroscience

The Eunethydis ADHD Guidelines group set out here the ethical principles governing the relationship between the group and industry. The principles set out here are provided to ensure that this is both done and seen to be done. The impetus for these guidelines comes from within the and is linked to the recognition for the need for an open and transparent basis for -industry relations, especially in the light of the present concern that the pharmaceutical industry may be exerting a growing influence on the actions of researchers and clinicians in the ADHD field.

Mots clés: ADHD; Guidelines; Ethics

Joseph A. Sergeant, Tobias Banaschewski, Jan Buitelar, David Coghill, Marina Danckaerts, et al.. Eunethydis: a statement of the ethical principles governing the relationship between the European group for ADHD guidelines, and its members, with commercial for-profit organisations. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010, 19 (9), pp.737-739. ⟨10.1007/s00787-010-0114-8⟩. ⟨hal-00599964⟩